Last year it launched a search-and-rescue unit, Borstar, to criss-cross the region looking for immigrants in trouble.
Charles Stirnweiss, the mayor of Forbach, argues that with the flush of German reunification fading, more German investors seeking lower costs are coming to Lorraine, seeing it almost as a single cross-frontier region with the Saarland.
The city hired the consultant Parsons Brinckerhoff in early 2011 to study the merits of extending the subway, shortly after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie canceled the planned "Access to the Region's Core" cross-river tunnel project, which was a blow to those who believe the region is hampered by the limited capacity for trains crossing the Hudson between Manhattan and the suburbs.
As these links criss-cross one another across a region, these simple measures can be mathematically picked apart to yield a map of the rainfall at a given moment.
He said it was time to re-consider the effects of creating a "cross-border sub-region" of north-east Wales and north-west England which sets the framework in which councils and the Welsh Government operate.
For example, the conflict in neighbouring Somalia means that armed nomads often cross the border and move into the region to graze their cattle.
India and Pakistan have resumed cross-border trade in the Jammu region more than a fortnight after ties were suspended following military tensions in Kashmir.
BBC: India and Pakistan resume cross-border trade in Kashmir
India and Pakistan are resuming cross-border trade and travel in the Jammu region more than a fortnight after ties were suspended following military tensions in Kashmir.
BBC: India and Pakistan resume cross-border travel in Kashmir
Its directors and advisers hail from tech giants such as Texas Instruments, Blue Cross Blue Shield and several major research hospitals in the region.
Some are worried that this set-up is hampering investment in the region, as well as causing problems for cross-border industries such as car manufacturing.
At his rural farmhouse, Mas Trucafort, he and his wife host cooking classes and meals featuring foods that are typical of the region, like delicious calcots -- a cross between a spring onion and a leek -- served with romesco sauce, and artichokes served with Catalonia's favourite accompaniment, the garlic sauce allioli.
And this highly-competitive grant illustrates the kind of cross-border collaboration that is essential to revive manufacturing in this region and across the country.
Though many retailers across the region, perhaps surprisingly, spy benefits in price transparency, the cross-border shopping boom, also maybe surprisingly, has not set off a public chorus for euro membership.
Meditations read out at each stage of the night-time procession - known as the Stations of the Cross - were composed by young Lebanese faithful, and some urged peace in a region "torn apart by injustice and conflicts".
It lives on in the Cross of Steel made from the World Trade Center beams, placed on a Pentagon-shaped platform that rests proudly outside the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department. (Applause.) That Cross of Steel is an enduring symbol of the steel and the spine of this region, and the spine of this country.
The emblem of France's anti-Nazi resistance was a cross with a double horizontal bar that is associated with Lorraine, Joan's home region.
In a hot region, that means paying a 40% premium for refrigerated trucks when delivery routes cross desert areas.
Cross-border trade with China, it says, will revive not just the depressed Gorno-Badakhshan region in the Pamir mountains, but the country as a whole.
In particular, we welcomed the significant contribution of the United States through USAID in supporting the development of ASEAN Single Window project, which aims to develop an integrated cross-border process for customs clearance to increase trade efficiency, trade security, and competitiveness across the region.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
However, many in the region's financial industry say that a single currency would strengthen economic ties and would help banks develop cross-border products and services.
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